He placed himself with unshrinking resolution before his bleeding country, and boldly confronted the fearful enemy, whose hands were still reeking from the carnage of Magdeburg.
Fortune seemed to have forsaken him since the carnage of Magdeburg.
ON the day when the city of Mansourah witnessed the carnage of the Crusaders under the Count of Artois, and a great battle shook the plain outside the walls, the Egyptians experienced by turns fear and hope, joy and sadness.
But though the carnage was going on around them, they were left undisturbed; and they passed a full hour in breathless suspense.
We cannot attempt to show that David was not guilty of a horrible carnage in his treatment of the Amalekites.
All we can say is, he shared in the belief of the time that such carnage was a lawful incident of war.
The scenes of carnage that followed are revolting to humanity.
The city was given up to plunder, and those who escaped the carnage were sold as slaves.
In the months that followed, Selwyn had revelled in the carnage and the excitement of war.
She had called him a fool because he dared to say that carnage was wrong.
With sulphurous clouds the heavens were black; We saw advance the Confiance, Shall blood and carnage mark her track, To gain dominion on the lake.
She crouched there, watching the awful scenes ofcarnage while gradually her heart stopped its mad pounding and the trembling left her legs and arms.
He threw back his lordly head, and his brilliant eyes seemed to dilate, as though the suggestion of the suit stirred his pulse, as the breath of carnage and the din of distant battle that of the war-horse, panting for the onward dash.
More than once she had been taken in a carnage through the Bois de Boulogne, but to-day for the first time since her recovery she ventured on foot, in quest of renewed vigour from outdoor air and exercise.
Jove drew Hector away from the darts and dust, with the carnage and din of battle; but the son of Atreus sped onwards, calling out lustily to the Danaans.
Hector did not yet know what Ajax was doing, for he was fighting on the extreme left of the battle by the banks of the river Scamander, where the carnage was thickest and the war-cry loudest round Nestor and brave Idomeneus.
Four hundred monks, devoting themselves to death, carried destruction through the royal host; but the tide of victory set at length in his favour, and after a fearful carnage on either side, he found himself master of the field.
She implored her men to desist from carnage and to spare the prisoners.
But what a carnage was not thereupon made of the Jacques!
I cannot remember now of ever seeing more dead men and horses and captured cannon, all jumbled together, than that scene of blood and carnage and battle on the Wilkerson turnpike.
But we soon found out that the glory of war was at home among the ladies and not upon the field of blood and carnage of death, where our comrades were mutilated and torn by shot and shell.
My pen is unable to describe the scene of carnage and death that ensued in the next two hours.
That black, ebon cloud, where the lurid lightning flickers and flares, that is rolling through the heavens, is the smoke of battle; beneath is being enacted a carnage of blood and death.
The sun was poised above us, a great red ball sinking slowly in the west, yet the scene of battle and carnage continued.
Then it is that they attack the invaders, and, entrenched in their forests behind impregnable rocks, they inflict the most terrible carnage on them with little danger to themselves.
Don Julian sallied forth and harassed them in their retreat, and so severe was the carnage that the veteran Muza was fain to break up his camp and retire confounded from the siege.
In the front was carnage and confusion, in the rear terror and fright; wherever the sacred standard was borne, the infidels appeared to fall before it, as if smitten by some invisible hand rather than by the Christian band.
The Count Rollànd rides through the battle-field And makes, with Durendal's keen blade in hand, A mightycarnage of the Saracens.
Meanwhile the knights Of France upon that day bore rueful loss; Nor stayed the carnage till the day was done.
My heart revolts with disgust against those brutish gods, always occupied with carnage and incest.
The carnage was prodigious, thousands were left bleeding on the sands, and multitudes more were drowned.
The field of carnage was hideous, and the town of Ebersberg was so wrapped in flames that the wounded could not be withdrawn.
On either side the carnage had been terrible, and the pathways of the villages were literally choked with the dead.
Night put an end to a contest where there were scenes of carnage that had not been equalled in years.
